When you are mixing audio for video you might ask yourself, how loud is too…loud, how quiet is too quiet?…As you are going to send your work out to the world, these are…important questions to ask.…By properly calibrating your loudspeakers prior to any work you do and leaving…the listening volume set the whole time, you will have a baseline volume…reference that relates to the outside world.…This way you can use your ears to accurately determine when dialogue, effects, or…music are too loud or too quiet.…As a consequence your mixes will translate to the outside world and they will…conform to volume level standards.…The tools you will need to calibrate are as follows.…

You will need an analog or digital SPL meter.…You can get this at your local RadioShack.…You'll also need a digital file of pink noise.…This is a test tone and you can get this at a web site Blue Sky.…They make professional speaker monitors and they actually offer a free bundle of…test tones, which is where I got the test tone that we'll use in this lesson.…

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4/4/2012

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6/14/2011

In this course, professional audio engineer Scott Hirsch shows how to create an evocative sound mix for a film or video, built from basic audio collected during the shoot and transformed into a final mix using Pro Tools 9. This course shows how to set up and optimize a Pro Tools session template for projects with unique requirements, record Foley and ADR audio, layer sound effects, perform corrections such as noise reduction and pitch shifting, mix for stereo and 5.1 surround sound, and finally, how to format and deliver the finalized mix, whether destined for DVD, movie theater, broadcast, or the web.